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Friday May 16, 2025

3:30 pm

Preschool Storytime & Craft

Ages: 3 – 12
Craft & DIY
Family

Kips Bay Library

Manhattan Teens Take The Met

4 – 8 pm

Teens Take The Met

Ages: 13 and up
Art
Attractions
Family

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtManhattan

4 pm

Art Kit Distribution Event

Ages: 13 and up
Craft & DIY
Family

Seward Park Library

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5 – 10 pm

Free Friday Nights

Art
Free

The Whitney Museum of American ArtManhattan

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5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

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5 – 10 pm

Decade Downtown Dance Party by DJ Justin Strauss and Public Records

Art
Free

The Whitney Museum of American ArtChelsea

Draft

5 – 8 pm

May Family Shabbat: Bring a Friend

Ages: 3 – 12
Community
Family
Food & Drink

Temple Emanu-ElStaten Island

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6 – 9 pm

Torch and Crown: Music with Shawn Parsons (@alabamashawn) & Matthew Lee & The Standbys (@mattyandthestandbys)

Torch and CrownManhattan

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6 – 8:30 pm

Shake Things Up at Liquid Lab NYC’s Signature Mixology Class at Elsie Rooftop on 5/16

Food & Drink

Elsie Rooftop NYCManhattan

SPNA Spring Gala

6 – 9 pm

Stuyvesant Square Park Spring Fundraising Gala

Fundraisers

St. George’s Episcopal ChurchNY

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6 – 9 pm

NoMad Design District Night: Fireclay Tile

Free

26 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011NoMad

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Manhattan

7 – 9 pm

EPIC Players Theatre presents Seussical the Musical: A Neuro-Inclusive Production

A.R.T/New YorkManhattan

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7 – 8:30 pm

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Theatre RowManhattan

Jeff Simmermon by Bryan Berlin 2

7 – 8 pm

CareGiver

Comedy

SOHO PLAYHOUSESoHo

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7 – 9 pm

Alexandria: Off-Broadway

Theater

Dixon PlaceNew York, NY

7 – 9 pm

MADDIE: A New Musical

Theater

The Players TheatreNew York City

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7 – 9:30 pm

Speakeasy, Die Softly: Immersive Murder Mystery Dinner Theater at Carmine’s

Carmine’s Italian Restaurant – Times SquareNew York City

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7 pm

The Dan Band

Music

Le Poisson RougeNew York, NY

HJB – V1 – GP

7 – 8 pm

Gene Pritsker – Composers Concordance – Harlem Jazz Series

Music

Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian ChurchHarlem

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7 – 8:30 pm

Harlem Jazz Series Presents: Composers Concordance; ‘In4Mation’

Music

Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian ChurchHarlem

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7 – 8:30 pm

Backbone

Ages: 5 and up
Family

Alice Tully HallManhattan

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7 – 9 pm

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Theater

Teatro LATEAManhattan

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7:30 – 9 pm

Those Who Remained

Theater

La MaMaEast Village

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7:30 – 9:30 pm

OUTRAGED HEARTS: INTERIOR: PANIC and THE PRETTY TRAP

Houghton Hall Arts CommunityManhattan

L: Kayla Mak and Elijah Geolina in Houston Thomas’s U Don’t Know Me. Photo: Rosalie O’Connor. R: YeonSeo Choi and Kayke Carvalho in the Black Swan pas de deux from Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake. Photo: Emma Zordan.

7:30 – 9 pm

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company: Spring Moves

Ages: 9 and up
Art
Dance
Family

NYU SkirballManhattan

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7:30 – 9:30 pm

Between Memory and Madness: Wedding Dress Premieres Off-Broadway

Art
Theater

PLAYHOUSE 46 at St. Luke’sHell’s Kitchen

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7:30 – 10 pm

Stuart Bogie & Buck McDaniel in Concert

Music

Chruch of Our SaviourManhattan

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7:30 – 9:30 pm

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Art
Comedy

INTARHell’s Kitchen

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7:30 pm

Mel Robbins

Beacon TheatreUpper West Side

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8 – 10 pm

Micro-Theater 16th Season – Directors Showcase

Teatro SEALower East Side

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